Top 100 Be Somebody Quotes
#1. Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
Juvenal
#2. I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.
Jeff Goldblum
#3. Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
Sylvia Plath
#4. We weren't meant to be somebody
we were meant to know Somebody
John Piper
#5. Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?
Henry David Thoreau
#6. I didn't want fine. I wanted to be somebody. Somebody with plenty of money.
Donald Jans
#8. If something good was happening in my life, I'd call my mom to let her know. If something bad was happening, she'd be somebody whose advice I would seek out. We had a very good relationship, but she drove me crazy, all the time. But, she drove me crazy in a loving way.
Dan Fogelman
#9. I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby
#10. You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
Jaron Lanier
#11. What happened?"
"I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn't work out."
"The world ain't set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind.
Messes up the natural order, otherwise.
Carolee Dean
#12. I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
G-Eazy
#13. If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know.
Margaret Atwood
#14. It was easy to be somebody else when no one cared who you were in the first place.
Danielle Evans
#15. There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
Bliss Carman
#16. You could BE somebody," he said, focusing a tight shot on her face.
"Honey," she said, mugging for the camera like an old time movie queen, "I already am somebody.
Danielle Ganek
#17. I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
Jane Haddam
#18. I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.
Aesop Rock
#19. By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter
#20. No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup.
Megan Hart
#21. You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.
Robert J. Braathe
#22. I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!
Bobby Jindal
#23. I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.
Kate Hudson
#24. So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
Carol Shields
#25. The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.
Mark Shields
#26. So many folks thinking and wanting you to be somebody else will confuse you if you are not careful.
Ellen Foster
#27. In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
R. Kelly
#28. Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes
#29. If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!
Lauren Hutton
#30. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
J.K. Rowling
#31. Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
Diego Boneta
#32. If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
James Spader
#33. In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with are very important.
Clint Eastwood
#35. You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up.
John Boehner
#36. You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.
Dita Von Teese
#38. I worked for a charity for a while, but ... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.
Shannon Woodward
#39. I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Ben Kingsley
#40. There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.
Teri Garr
#41. I had never gotten the hang of dating - I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.
Rob Sheffield
#42. To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
Ethan Hawke
#43. You mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks."
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
Wendell Berry
#44. I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting.
J.D. Salinger
#45. Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.
Steven Hatfill
#46. Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
Ben Lerner
#47. He would like to get out of his own body for a while; he'd like to be somebody else.
Margaret Atwood
#48. For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
Lance Gross
#49. What did it mean to, as our elders told us, "grow up and be somebody"? And what precisely did this have to do with an education rendered as rote discipline?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#50. By the time we're twenty, Hasina used to say, Giti and I, we'll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you'll make us two dummies proud. You're going to be somebody. I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page.
Khaled Hosseini
#51. If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?
Melina Kanakaredes
#52. I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.
Faith Ringgold
#53. If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.
Jerry Fodor
#54. The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#55. Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
James Gandolfini
#56. I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.
Maria Bello
#57. Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato
#58. We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.
Robert Cheeke
#59. I genuinely believe the next leader has to be somebody who sees the opportunity of leaving the EU and is completely determined to deliver on what the people have told us to do.
Andrea Leadsom
#60. Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.
William H. Seward
#61. I thought I had to prove myself with money and accomplishments. But those will always ring hollow. They will never be enough. I want to be somebody. Let me be your husband. Let me be the father of your child -of all your children.
Courtney Milan
#62. I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.
Tony Harrison
#63. I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.
Cory Monteith
#64. Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.
Lady Gaga
#65. I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.
Will Packer
#67. I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
B.B. King
#68. I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.
Karolina Kurkova
#69. He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
John Leguizamo
#70. It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.
Maggie Smith
#71. There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said Nobody.
A.A. Milne
#72. Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody
Robby Novak
#73. Boys go to Washington to be somebody ... men go to do something.
John J. McCloy
#74. What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had made better decisions, that had thought more clearly.
J. Robert Lennon
#75. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." Lily Tomlin
E.C. Sheedy
#76. Before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
Andrea Gibson
#77. Everything people do that doesn't work has to be somebody else's fault. Next time you know, geezers'll be suing the government for getting old and kids'll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.
Lionel Shriver
#78. ... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness. (Page 64)
Ossie Davis
#79. I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.
Jessica Sanchez
#80. And then I had a thought, clear as day. I would never be somebody's favorite again. I would never be a kid again, not in the same way. That was all over now. She was really gone.
Jenny Han
#81. Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
Christian Bale
#82. I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.
Norah Jones
#83. I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models ... they all have an individual look.
Twiggy
#84. You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.
Augusten Burroughs
#85. Nobody asks anybody to be somebody.
Man for himself and be yourself, buddy!
Toba Beta
#86. There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
Amanda Schull
#87. Future?" Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. "Well," he said, "I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.
William, Saroyan
#88. Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
Jane Asher
#89. Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.
Richard M. Nixon
#90. There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way ... like Holocaust deniers.
Pete Postlethwaite
#91. Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.
Richard Hofstadter
#92. Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream.
Puff Daddy
#93. Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#94. I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
Renee Fleming
#95. I mean, why would a God create all of us and put us here if we were supposed to go around feeling bad about ourselves and pretending to be somebody we're not? How is hiding who you are telling the truth?
Aaron Hartzler
#96. I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
John Glover
#97. I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
Angelina Jolie
#99. loved a man for years who said her eyes looked like the ocean, because she always wanted to be somebody's poem, somebody's simile, somebody's lackluster metaphor.
Trista Mateer
#100. Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
Steven Tyler
